Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lure - Finished!!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Step 7
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Step 6
This is slow going. Many layers to build up depth and texture. I've glazed black over the forground including the vegetation. Blue over the shadow side of the rock. Glazed a semi-transparent warm light gray over the rock in sun, the ocean and the lower sky. Put in the glare on the water with palette knife, glazed the water blue and put it in again. Painting knife with very light gray on the rocks followed by a blue glaze.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Step 4
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Step 3
Moon Motion
We watched the eclipse in the hot tub last night. Loi was enjoying it, but I was pretty sure the shadow was moving the wrong way. If you just run out in the cold and look for a second you wouldn't notice. We all know which way the moon moves, right? From left to right across the sky. So the right side of the moon should enter the shadow first. Not so, just the opposite. I spent the whole time trying to puzzle it out. No luck. Later, on the internet, I learned the moon actually moves right to left no matter what it looks to be doing! Who knew? They told us about the sun not actually rising, but not a peep about the moon. Odd.
Started a new painting yesterday
It's 24x36", gallery wrapped canvas in acrylic for the ISAP international show...deadline fast approaching. A lone figure will be standing on rock gazing out to sea, an island on the far horizon. I hope to capture the facination the sea inspires in me and a lot of people. Had this great idea to put a layer of Burnt Sienna down before the black for a change. The canvas was preprimed but I brushed on a thick coat of Utrecht professional grade gesso, it's extra thick, which gives a very textured surface...lots of brush strokes when dry. I used a 2" China el cheapo bristle.
Figure Study
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Technique Explained
Thanks everyone for the encouraging remarks! It's all texture, mostly from an inexpensive China bristle brush and Utrecht professional grade gesso. A multilayer technique was used. Black gesso was used to rough in the birds which was corrected with gobs of white gesso followed by a transparent glaze which was then hit with a pot scrubber to expose the little ridges, etc., etc. This detail is about an inch wide. For maybe the third time I applied white to the bird with finger tip, tinted with yellow this time. Once dry I glazed the whole thing blue again and wiped it off the bird with a paper towel. My goal was to avoid any hard edges, suggestion only with a tonalist feel. The dark spots are painting knife on the high points. Almost forgot. This was painted over an earlier painting also with a lot of texture.
A painting is a series of corrected mistakes...might as well get started.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
That's it!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Maine Harbor - Step 2
Maine Harbor - Step 1
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Proposed Cabin Cruiser
Monday, February 11, 2008
Famous Painting Stolen!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Maine Twilight
New Harbor, Maine, 2005. Built the boat and docks in Sketchup. The boat was in the last post. Put them into Bryce and added the water. Then into Paintshop to add the sky, clouds, bird and fine tune all the colors and values. From our trip to Maine a couple years ago. May turn this into a large painting...3'x4'.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Rowboat
I've been included in Google Sketchup's '3D Modeling Services' collection of professional 3D modelers. 'Wonderful job on your models', they said! Search 'buildart' in collections to find the three d models I've made with Sketchup, a great program and lots of fun to use. Several recent pictures in this blog feature my models. Here's the address: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
Monday, February 4, 2008
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